There’s a mountain of information that comes out following the end of the year in comics — and more yet to come, as we await the 2016 final report from Diamond Comic Distributors. After last Friday’s report on December comics, there’s one more category we can report on: the average price retailers paid for comics … Read more
In the midst of the last comics recession in 2010, DC embarked upon a plan to cut page counts by two pages (from 22 to 20) in order to allow a price cut from $3.99 to $2.99. Much remarked upon at the time, it was not the only time price cuts had been employed as … Read more
The full Comichron estimates for comic books and graphic novels ordered in October 2012 by comics retailers in North America from Diamond Comic Distributors are now online. They fill out the picture described Friday of a record-setting month for the Direct Market. On top of having the highest dollar-value month for combined comics and trade … Read more
Diamond Comic Distributors has released the full report for last month, and it completes the picture for the year for comics sales to North American comics shops. Click to see the sales estimates for December 2011. As reported here on Friday, sales of periodical comics to comics shops went up during the year: sales … Read more
Von Allan has posted an interesting article on comic book pricing in comparison with minimum wage over the years, which prompted me to get online some materials that I’ve been meaning to post for some time. First, readers of Comics Buyer’s Guide may remember the “What Price, Comics?” column I ran in #1619, the August … Read more
With publishers announcing some fine-tuning to the pricing structure for new comics — DC, in particular, plans to move some titles from $3.99 with 22 story pages to $2.99 with 20 story pages, among other changes — I’ve been asked whether publishers have ever done line-wide price decreases before. In a word, yes. Several times, … Read more